Lees, Thomas (1845-1916)

Family

Thomas was born abt1845 at Oldham, Lancashire. I have not been able to identify his parents in online records.

He married Sarah Daft (abt1857-1912) in the spring of 1887 at the Baptist Chapel, Basford, Nottinghamshire. Census returns identify three children.

• Thomas Leslie (1888-1916) – a certificated school assistant (1911); died in WW1
• Kathleen May (b1895)
• Dorothy (b1898)

Thomas died on 12 May 1916 at Pollington, Yorkshire.

Circuits

• 1868 Plymouth
• 1869 Torquay & Teignmouth
• 1870 Canterbury
• 1871 Pembroke
• 1872 Cardiff
• 1873 Guildford
• 1874 Northampton
• 1875 disappears
• Paton Congregational College, Nottingham
• 1884 Liskeard, Cornwall – Congregational minister
• 1886 Barrow, Lancs
• 1891-1910 Normanton, Yorkshire

References

W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990

Surman Index id:16803

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers